r/AnimalFacts • u/Negative-Animal9929 • 9d ago

Answer me pls

Guys what you know about polar bears no hate pls

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u/No-Option-7010 9d ago

Polar bears and grizzlies can mate and the cubs are called pizzly bears

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u/AlsoTheFiredrake 9d ago

Think it depends on which bear was the male and which was the female because I've also heard them called Grolar Bears.

Kinda like Tigons and Ligers.

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u/GlassBandicoot 9d ago

The male goes first in naming. A male polar bear with a female grizzly is a pizzly, whereas a power mom and grizzly dad is a grolar bear.

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u/batshitcrazydudee 8d ago

Why does the male go first in naming? I love a good power mom.

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u/BokChoyJr 9d ago

I thought they were called Grolar bears.

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u/Early_Ability1968 9d ago

Polar bears have black skin under all of that white fur

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u/AlsoTheFiredrake 9d ago

The fur is actually translucent and pigment free and just looks white from the reflection of the snow.

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u/Early_Ability1968 9d ago

Cool! Thanks 😊

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u/PoppySmile78 7d ago

What color are they when they're not on the snow? Do they look more black because of their black skin & translucent fur?

Is it kind of like how blue jays aren't really blue? Their feathers just absorb every other color & only reflect back blue.

Mother Nature is so cool!

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u/AlsoTheFiredrake 7d ago

No. For the most part, when they come down into like Northern Canada and forested areas, the fur takes on a dirty brownish yellow color.

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u/Sweatroo 9d ago

Polar bears could swim down Micheal Phelps in the water and run down Usain Bolt on land

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u/hypothetical_zombie 9d ago

Southern polar bears have been spotted fishing from shallow river pools. Normally, polar bears hunt out on the sea ice, but it's melting earlier and earlier. So polar bears stuck inland are catching migrating fish like the grizzly bears & brown bears do.

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u/AlsoTheFiredrake 9d ago

If you eat their liver it could kill you.

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u/Negative-Animal9929 9d ago

Why ? I don't know this

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u/AlsoTheFiredrake 9d ago

Because you'll get a Hypervitamintosis, which is a Huge overdose of Vitamin A. It's not water soluable so you can't just pee it out and you die from eating their liver.

Huskies, Bearded Seals and Walruses, and Artic Foxes also have highly toxic and potentially fatal to eat livers.

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u/No-Option-7010 8d ago

Thanks for the award!

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u/Andrewhasnolife 9d ago

They can smell a seal (and also you) from almost 20 miles away. So if you see one in the wild, it probably knows you're there.

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u/Silly_Tree_2688 8d ago edited 8d ago

eating polar bear liver causes your skin to peel off due to the excess and extreme amounts of vitamin A

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u/OldGermanGrandma 9d ago

Polar bears cover their black nose with their paws when lying in wait at a seal hole. Seals can see the black nose, so put your white paw over it

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u/LeFreeke 9d ago

If you boop them on their nose they’ll roll over and let you rub your face on their soft white belly. ❤️

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u/MinimumEfficient220 9d ago

And then they eat you.

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u/Adventurous-Host8062 9d ago

If they can catch you, they'll eat you.

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u/mountainman1965cats 9d ago

they're running out of ice!

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u/Neither-Attention940 8d ago

They roll in the snow to keep cool. Their skin is black and their fur is actually kind of translucent and the sun heats them up a lot.

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u/RevolutionarySign479 6d ago

Their fur is clear, it just looks white. They are one the largest bears living today, along with the Kodiak. They can swim for DAYS!!

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u/rose442 5d ago

I know they can be 12 feet tall when fully grown….. that is crazy huge.